translated from Spanish: IMSS Michoacán to perform vasectomy no-scalpel days

Michoacán.-In order to promote responsible parenthood and gender equity in the topic of family planning, this morning at the press conference, the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Michoacán, announced its no-scalpel vasectomy day, to Be carried out from 10 to 14 June in family medicine units.
 Dr. Carlos Avilés Laredo, delegate coordinator of Public Health, announced that the IMSS Michoacan expects to make more than 150 vasectomies during the second week of June, in various clinics of the entity, as in Morelia, Uruapan, Zamora, Zacapu and Lázaro Cárdenas, among others.
He indicated that in 2018 a large total of 1249 surgeries were performed without a scalpel, contemplating the day of June of the previous year, so that in the year 2019 is also intended to exceed the figure described yearly.
For his part, Dr. Sandra Torres Suárez, in charge of the family planning module of the UMF No. 80 of Morelia, explained that vasectomy is a definitive method of family planning, i.e. irreversible, because it means a small cut of the Seminal ducts and the respective ligament.
Abounded in that it is an intervention of only 15 minutes in the same office, without side effects.   It separates the skin from the scrotum with a forceps and without using scalpel, without bleeding or pain, the seminal duct is located, it is cut and ligated.
In his opportunity, Dr. Francisco de Jesus Celeste Méndez, of the family planning module of the UMF No. 75, the “Nomelinas Morelia”, clarified that no-scalpel vasectomy at any time decreases the sexual appetite of men, recovery is immediate and only You recommend suspending physical activity or exercise and sexual intercourse for seven days, avoid carrying heavy things and go to the following week’s consultation for the corresponding exams.
It was also established that the day from the 10th to the 14th of June, which in the case of medical units extends until the day Saturday 15 as in the UMF No. 75, is addressed to beneficiaries and NON-successors, ie , it is also focused on open population.
They added that it is a matter of promoting a definitive method of planning in men, when they arrive at a satisfied paternity and for the foregoing, it was recommended to consult requirements in the family planning module of their corresponding medical unit.
It was said that in the case of women has a greater number of methods of family planning, both temporary and definitive as OTB (Bilateral Tubular obstruction), but in the case of men, only have few methods, so that vasectomy It corresponds to a definitive and irreversible method.
They pointed out that for the above, there is a ratio of 70 and 30 percent between women and men who come to adopt a definitive method of family planning, but as time goes on, the culture of man to adopt this type of definitive method for Planning is on the rise, especially when a satisfied paternity is attained.

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